It's an interview with Steve Broback who runs the conference running the interview. - Robert Scoble

@anamitra's gig: he's working on the commercial products on Twitter. - Robert Scoble

You can watch all the Tweets live from the Twitter Conference here: http://search.twitter.com/search... - Robert Scoble

He was the ad guy at Yahoo. So, Broback asked him what Twitter is going to do with advertising. - Robert Scoble

He thought of customers at Yahoo as partners. "We are at a stage where nothing has been ruled out and we don't have any bias in any one direction." - Robert Scoble

He says that once in a while in the tweet stream they see something that looks like an ad. Oh, you mean like, "host your website on Rackspace?" ;-) - Robert Scoble

Nice Robert. Too bad there are no links in FF comments. - τorƍue

Now getting to some meat, hopefully. "We haven't been that unique and worthwhile for [commercial users]." - Robert Scoble

There's lots of interesting things they could do, he says, around how they filter things that come in. - Robert Scoble

Categories, types of businesses. Ahh, they ARE thinking about how to get onto Google's table. Do a search for "Palo Alto Sushi" on Google. Now imagine how a list like that could be used by Twitter. - Robert Scoble

Broback is asking about StockTweets and is wondering if more of those kinds of vertical services are coming. - Robert Scoble

Anamitra is talking about mining Twitter for, say, airline fare data. Looking to solve consumer problems with commercial data. - Robert Scoble

"We can't do all of them," in regard to all the cool stuff. - Robert Scoble

Next 12 months: "what is not on the roadmap is a TV show." - Robert Scoble

I think the automation market is huge. One page, 10 Tweet addresses, does 10 different things for you when you follow them. No messaging, just automate parts of your life as it relates to that organization. - Chad Harris

That got applause from audience. - Robert Scoble

He didn't give many specifics on roadmap, though. - Robert Scoble

Twitter needs online grouping like Friend Feed so 3rd party apps auto update (like tweetdeck and seesmic desktop) if you are away from your PC, or PC dies, all your groups are gone. - Darin aka iGoByDoc

Darin: it's clear that Twitter is going to add that, or something similar, soon. The Twitter team yesterday said they are working on something that will solve that problem. - Robert Scoble

Now talking about demand generation, aka Dell's Twitter account that sells millions of dollars worth of equipment. - Robert Scoble

Curious to know how much value they're putting on Apps and Enterprise markets. - phil baumann

Robert, that is good to hear... Thanks! - Darin aka iGoByDoc

phil: sounds like a lot. That's where @anamitra sees the early money. - Robert Scoble

idea for twitter grouping (mostly for twitter clients for now, could be stored on twitter.com later via api) : opml import/export of groups. - Sylvain Carle

Ahhh, he finally got the small business religion I've been preaching. Says that small businesses, like a cookie shop, need to be able to tell their customers things in real time "new batch of cookies is ready." - Robert Scoble

Broback is talking about a bakery that already has a machine that Tweets when the bread is done. Also there's a device that you can put in your plant bed to Tweet when they need water. - Robert Scoble

Even simple stuff. "Click here and we will message your wife with some Men are from Mars crappolla twice a week and message you what wonderful things you said to her to cover you when you come home" We are too busy to even tell people we love them, who is to say auto messaging is insensitive? - Chad Harris

Speaking of busy crap! I gotta hop. - Chad Harris

and yet the main source that makes all these great ideas possible doesn't make any money - Amiroo ™

robert: you mean http://www.bakertweet.com/ - Robert O'Callaghan

also my bee hive tweets via @beehiveyourself - Robert O'Callaghan

the small business thing is huge, in our part of the world it would be nothing short of a revolution for them - Peter du Toit (S.Africa)

Agree with the small biz angle...but how to monitize that? what service/facilitation would Twitter provide me that I'd pay for. What can Premium Twitter provide me that Free Twitter can't? - phil baumann

I agree with @thomasknoll: IMHO Customer Service *is* Marketing #140tc This is the secret sauce at my employer. - Robert Scoble

He says that lots of Twitter team members have worked on services that have grown very fast and Twitter is faster growing than they've seen in previous jobs. - Robert Scoble

Social Media has not invented conversations. Customer Service has always been better at conversing with the customer than the marketing department => building relationships is marketing.. - Yann Ropars

@jasonp107: Show of hands at #140tc reveals most of the room went through the "twitter bounce" - join, but don't really USE until later. (Yup, I got in in November of 2006 but really didn't use it until March of 2007). - Robert Scoble